Don't take down the Boer War statue at Highbury Corner. Add to it, (Historian: ‘Don’t pull down Highbury Corner’s Boer War statue’, Islington Tribune 26 June 2020, p.3).

It mourns Islington lads pointlessly killed in a war between two white nations over who gets to exploit black labour.

The Brits wanted the gold and diamonds; the Boers wanted the Africans’ land. Hundreds, maybe thousands of Islingtonians supported the anti-apartheid campaign.

It’s commemorated in Edinburgh by a small bronze figure – an anonymous African woman with her child. Why not put a copy of her beside the Boer War goddess, in that green triangle dedicated to South Africa?

NEAL Ascherson
Corsica Street, N5

• Keywords
  STATUES, WAR MEMORIALS, BOER WAR (SECOND), LETTERS
• Geographical keyword
  HIGHBURY FIELDS [Open Space], HIGHBURY PLACE
• Persons keyword
  Highbury Fields